Vipingo City

CLIENT: Athena Properties, LTD.

LOCATION: Vipingo, Kenya

SIZE:10,000 acres; 200,000 people

COLLABORATORS: rePLACE Urban Studio

SERVICES: Infrastructure Planning, Urban Planning

YEAR: 2016

Framework for a Walkable City in Kenya

Vipingo City is a new model city located on the Kenyan Coast that is designed to engage and support the existing community. In 30 years, Vipingo City will be Kenya’s first completely walkable city, with 12 distinctive neighborhoods, a thriving economy, reliable infrastructure, a variety of housing types, public parks, healthy food systems, quality schools, and functioning ecological systems.

Vipingo will be the model for providing modern infrastructure in affordable ways that allow businesses and families to thrive. In collaboration with rePLACE Urban Studio and Athena, LEVEL provided urban and infrastructure planning for the 10,000-acre site. The plan is a framework for development that includes guidance on land uses, densities, open space sizes, and all backbone infrastructure – roads, wastewater, drinking water, drainage, power, internet and telecommunications, and solid waste management.